The Graybrier Nurs & Retirement Center
116 Lane Drive, Trinity NC 27370 · (336) 431-8888 · 80.46% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
The Graybrier Nurs & Retirement Center is a senior living facility located in Trinity, North Carolina. This city has a population of 15,052 people. This is a lower end nursing home, with an overall grade of D. Based on our ratings, this facility likely isn't the best fit for most prospective residents. If you aren't deterred by this nursing home's profile, feel free to continue reading to learn more about its category scores. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 128 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
While this nursing home's overall score was not a highlight, it actually really excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A- for that area, which is one of our highest scores. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection ratings. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some end up being relatively insignificant. This nursing home was assessed 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered severe. This indicates that CMS didn't consider any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to resident health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home's next highest category came in the area of long-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a B-. Our long-term care grade is commonly used to judge a facility's performance as a traditional convalescent home, as opposed to focusing on the skilled nursing services offered by a rehabilitation facility. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 99.73404 percent of its residents, which is higher than the average nursing home. Unfortunately, this place's hospitalization rate was not quite as favorable. Here we found that this place had 2.34 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.
Short-term Care Quality
Moving on to the category of short-term care, this facility was awarded a grade of just D in that area. In the area of short-term care, we seek to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We look at a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. With its grade in this category, we were not stunned to discover that this nursing home was well below average in terms of the number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the metrics we looked at. Honestly, this was what we expected here. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 42.8 percent of this facility's residents returned home.
Nurse Quality
The final category we looked at is nursing. We gave it an abysmal F in this area, which is a bottom of the barrel grade. When determining a nursing home's nursing grade, we assess the amount of time nurses are caring for patients as well as the levels of training of the nurses. This nursing home provides 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is slightly below the national average. In addition to ranking below average in nursing hours per resident, this facility also had poor scores in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. We looked at the percentage of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This facility was at about 150 percent of the national average in both of these data points. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are preventable with better nursing care. These scores helped pull down this facility's nursing grade quite a bit.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
The Graybrier Nurs & Retirement Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of long-term residents who suffer from new or worsened pressure ulcers or bed sores. We factor in this statistic in computing both nursing and long-term care grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This datapoint indicates the percentage of long-term patients that suffered a fall leading to severe injury. This is one of the statistics we use in computing our nursing ratings.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This tells you the percentage of long-term stay residents who suffered from urinary tract infections. UTI's may be an indication of a facility with lower levels of hygiene. Nevertheless, this statistic could also be skewed for certain facilities due to different reporting standards for UTI's.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of patients who were given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are prescribed to patients for a variety of conditions, such as cognitive disorders. Tragically, in some situations, increased usage of these drugs may suggest a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of patients prescribed antianxiety drugs. These drugs are used to treat residents experiencing depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients who are showing signs of depression. Some would argue this is a reliable measure of patient quality of life.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home residents, making these vaccines critical to patient health.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percent of patients who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric tracks the percent of long-term care residents that retained mobility levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. Avoiding hospitalizations is key to the physical well-being of nursing home patients.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care. Avoiding the hospital during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the physical abilities of patients.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to gauge the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric is a measure of the percent of short-term stay patients that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some experts would argue that this is a reliable measure of rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better